Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav

Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav was an Indian freestyle wrestler who won bronze in the bantamweight event at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. He became independent India’s first individual Olympic medallist, following a sixth-place finish at the 1948 London Games. Known as the “Pocket Dynamo,” Jadhav helped establish wrestling as a source of national pride in post-independence India.